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  • Member since
    June 2010
  • From: Australia
Posted by OctaneOrange on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:53 PM

lovely bit of modelling there. thanks for showing how you did the base too.

  • Member since
    September 2010
  • From: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Posted by si.treadhead on Monday, September 27, 2010 5:14 PM

niiice!! bet that base detail took a lot of patience! ;)

Before you judge someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. After that, who cares? They're a mile away and you've got their shoes!

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Monday, September 27, 2010 2:38 PM

Fantastic! Thanks for the infomation.

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    October 2009
Posted by DrShrinker on Sunday, September 26, 2010 10:04 PM

Yes, the base was scratch built. I carved it out of pick insulation like so

Then i added little (i have no idea what to call them) things that i carved out of small pieces of the pink stuff  like these:

I added those and took some chicken bones and made a mold of a few and casted a bunch which i added here and there along with small wire harnesses like so:

I used Woodland Scenic's Water effects as the glue. Which was neat to work with since it holds some consistency and could be 'stretched' across the gaps to create those strange alien secretions like in Aliens.

Painted black, dry brushed with various greys and white and glossed over with Smoke mixed with Black. And a final heavy coat of Future for super glossiness.

As for the Queen, it was a big experiment. What it finally boiled down to was similar to the base. Black overall. then dusted with a dark blue using the airbrush. Dry brushed highlights with shades of White, and Silver, it of course looked too bright, So i mixed smoke with black again to make it darker.

I actually went to the hobby shop looking for "Clear Black" but could only find blue red and yellow. Smoke with black worked out though.

Thanks again. Alien

 

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Friday, September 24, 2010 9:53 AM

Wow, some awesome work there! Did you scratchbuild the base? And what colour did you use for the alien, it looks sorta like gunmetal maybe?

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    October 2009
Posted by DrShrinker on Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:47 AM

Thanks everyone. Alien

  • Member since
    December 2007
  • From: Louisville, KY.
Posted by Cosmic J on Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:31 AM

Nice paint work, and an awesome job on that base. Cool

  • Member since
    August 2009
  • From: Central IL
Posted by SLW 45 on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:15 PM

Great build !!! And one of my favorite flicks of all time Toast

                 

  • Member since
    May 2010
  • From: North Carolina
Posted by Gunpla Master on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:08 PM

Scares the crap outta me!  Nice job and the paint is spot on.

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  • Member since
    June 2009
Posted by Guney on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:43 PM

Great work......:)

  • Member since
    March 2006
Posted by TD4438 on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:35 PM

A job well done on both kits.

  • Member since
    October 2009
Xenomorph
Posted by DrShrinker on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:08 AM

Hudson: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what?
Gorman: A xenomorph.
Hicks: It's a bughunt.

I believe the kit is a remake of the old Halcyon kit (which i wish i had bought back then) Its vinyl and resin. I broke this kit every time i worked on it, every finger, every 'spine', all her hands, all the parts made from resin broke at least once. I came pretty close to just throwing it in a box and forgetting about it. Not to mention the tail was, in my opinion, molded upside down. If you set the tail to line up with her spinal things, she wont stand up. Anyway, even though i hated this kit, i do like the finished product for the most part.

Base was scratch built from that cool pink insulation you can carve into as well as chicken bones, wire harness things and lots and lots of glue.

I think it looks better in person, my old camera doesnt pick up all the detail it should, but here are the pics anyway. Enjoy :)

 




















Bonus picture of a technically "unfinished" project.

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